Go deep with today’s Grail news briefs…
- Scotland’s first football floodlights were taken away to be used in a hunt for the Loch Ness Monster in the 1930s, a history project has discovered.
- The Loch Ness monster: a modern history.
- A new era in the search for extraterrestrial life: we can finally analyse exoplanet atmospheres.
- Just because you can doesn’t mean you should: what genetic engineers can learn from Jurassic World.
- Unusual burials for women in Medieval Europe.
- 1.4 million year old jawbone may belong to the oldest known human relative in Europe.
- A strange fossil in South China reveals an intriguing link with the first Americans.
- Zombie fly fungus lures healthy male flies to mate with female corpses.
- Van Gogh self-portrait found hidden behind painting in Scotland.
- Remembering psychedelic pioneer Ann Shulgin and what she taught us about the shadow.
- Our good friend Blair MacKenzie Blake spoke to UFO researcher Kevin Randle about the Allende letters and his long – and ultimately successful – search for the original VARO Edition of M. K. Jessup’s 1955 book The Case for the UFO – check it out!
- Image of the Day: A wasp, flower, and fly trapped in amber reveal 30-million-year old microcosm.
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Quote of the Day:
Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It’s born out of other men’s violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry.
Rod Serling
